'' The Gay Amigo '' is a 1949 American

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film starring

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in the lead role of

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. This film was one entry in a series of Cisco Kid B

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produced by Philip N. Krasne.

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later advanced money to Krasne in order to purchase the television rights for the Cisco Kid.Grams, Martin ''Science Fiction Theatre: A History of the Television program, 1955-1957'' BearManor Media (August 30, 2011) Krasne later produced ''

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''.

Plot

Cisco and Pancho are at the border of the

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and

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where they see a

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pursuing what looks to be a band of ''

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''. Escaping to Mexico, one of the bandidos falls off his horse. Cisco and Pancho see that not only is he dead, but he is actually a ''Norteamericano'' in

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costume. Cisco and Pancho use the U.S. Army, the local newspaper, a

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and a variety of respectable American citizens by playing them off against each other to discover the Americans attempting to blame Mexicans for stopping Arizona Statehood.

Cast

as The Cisco Kid *

Leo Carillo Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo (; August 6, 1880 – September 10, 1961), known professionally as Leo Carrillo, was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist. He was best known for playing Pancho in the television ...

as Pancho *

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as Rosita * Fred Kohler Jr. as Brack *

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as Lieutenant *

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as Henchman Duke

References

External links

* 1949 films Films directed by Wallace Fox 1949 Western (genre) films United Artists films American Western (genre) films Adaptations of works by O. Henry Cisco Kid Films scored by Albert Glasser American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{1940s-Western-film-stub